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Encultured Embodiment

The 'embodiment turn' in the more recent philosophy of mind and cognitive science has brought about a rehabilitation of the phenomenology of the body. Nurture is juxtaposed to nature in its environmental and social dimension. A yet more holistic approach to the living and active human body is needed, and it is the one that should take into account the symbolic or cultural. By inaugurating the notion of the “knowing body” I want to stress the imporatnce of the cultural, and make it a constitutive dimension of bodily interaction with the world. Such an 'encultured' body inhabits the space that is by no means neutral, but is rather meaningfully structured (whereby meaningfulness is not to be reduced exclusively to the propositionality). The “corporeal competence” thus far outgrows mechanical skills and is to be perceived as belonging to cultural experience.

phenomenology; cognitive science; embodiment; agent; culture; 'knowing body'

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